Well, we'd put together what we thought was an excellent team for the project—that is, until we hit technical problems
我们组建了我们所认为的做项目的杰出团队—直到我们遇上技术问题
and realised that we needed staff with a wider range of specialised technical experience than the people we'd recruited.
我们意识到团队需要更多的拥有专业技术经验的员工。
So we had to advertise again to replace some key members of the team;
因此我们不得不再次招聘代替团队中的一些关键人员；
we were lucky that we just about managed to cover the extra costs within the budget. Our customers were very satisfied with the outcome.
幸运的是，我们将额外成本努力控制在预算之内。我们的客户对结果非常满意。
Although we had minor problems with suppliers from the start, these were easily overcome.
虽然从一开始我们和供应商出现一些小问题，但这些都被轻易解决。
Initially, I thought we'd underestimated the cost of the project, as it was so tight most of the time, but we managed to avoid an overspend.
首先，我认为我们低估了这个项目的成本，结果大部分时间我们的预算都很紧，但我们还是尽量避免了超支。
It was a very stressful time. However, it was the breakdowns which really upset the staff,
项目期间压力很大。但出现的这些故障才让我们的员真正感到沮丧，
and I wouldn't have blamed them if they'd walked out on strike the fifth time it happened in a week.
如果他们在一周内五次罢工，我不会责怪他们。